Sunday, July 24, 2011
Friday, July 22, 2011
Stringer Slush Fund Report
Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer Blasts Mayor's Race Opponent Chris Quinn
Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer took an apparent swipe at his mayor's race opponent, calling for an end to pork spending by local lawmakers.
JULY 20, 2011 4:09 PM
Our Reuven Blau reports:
"We have a system where some districts get a lot more than others and politics is the only reason," Stringer told reporters yesterday.
Quinn is an early frontrunner in the mayoral election with the largest war chest of more than $4 million. Yet one of her major challenges in her expected run is the so-called slush fund scandal that erupted in 2007.
-- Excerpted from the Daily Politics blog by Celeste Katz on The New York Daily News.
2011 07 Xx Christine Quinn Slush Fund Member Items Report
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Subway Fight Baby Stroller
2 Females Fighting in the L Train in NYC. Iphone HD Video, July 19, 2011
2 Females Fighting in the L Train in NYC all because of a seat, Really a seat? Wigs out and one of the lady's baby stroller went rolling out of the train. Other people taking care of her baby while she fights WTF?
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Tony Simone to City : ''4Q!''
Monday, July 18th 2011, 4:00 AM
Bryan Smith for News
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn's director of community outreach dropped a few F-bombs at a local fundraiser last week.
Christine Quinn needs to rein in her director of community outreach Tony Simone.
The City Council speaker's office has issued an apology after Simone reached out to protesters outside a Quinn fund-raiser last Monday by lobbing a few F-bombs their way.
Documentary maker Donny Moss tells us that the protest outside the Dream Downtown hotel, which drew close to 30 people, was one of several that he and others will organize "between now and the mayoral election," to urge voters to "look beyond" Quinn's "identity" as a gay politician "to her actual record."
Moss addresses the issue in a 10-minute YouTube film called "Christine Quinn: Behind The Smile," in which he outlines a number of instances where, he contends, Quinn has "betrayed the gay community behind the scenes since becoming speaker."
Perhaps that's why Simone didn't have anything good to say when he encountered the protest at the Dream Downtown on Monday night where Quinn was having an $11-a-head fund-raiser for her 2013 mayoral campaign. (Quinn avoided her critics by using a back entrance to the hotel.)
According to Moss and another witness, Simone — who's a former Goldman Sachs portfolio analyst— approached the demonstrators, who were stationed on 16th St. between Eighth and Ninth Aves. outside of the hotel's entrance.
There, Simone asked one protester if Moss was present. Told that the filmmaker was indeed among the group, Simone responded: "Tell him to go f--- himself."
Moss says Simone then spotted longtime gay rights activist Allen Roskoff, and shouted "F--- you" at him before heading inside to the fund-raiser.
Roskoff, who's also been critical of Quinn, is president of the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club and co-author of the nation's first gay rights bill.
When we ran this story by Quinn's office, her communications director Jamie McShane told us Simone had gone to the fund-raiser "on his own time," where he was "repeatedly verbally abused by protesters. Tony lost his cool and should not have. He apologizes for his actions."
"That's a patent lie," replied Moss, who insisted "no one even recognized" Simone until he hurled his epithets.
"I didn't even say a word to him after he said I should go f--- myself," said Moss. He added that he and Roskoff were "mesmerized" by the city employee's behavior and said nothing.
Moss said he also didn't react when, he claimed, Simone approached him at another protest in summer 2009 and "shouted in my face, 'Loser!'
"I'm more interested in exposing Quinn's record than engaging with people who are invested in her success," he said.
Sean Hoare Karen Silkwood
Whistle-Blower in Phone-Hacking Case Reportedly Found Dead
Sean Hoare, a former News of the World journalist who claimed that Andy Coulson, the tabloid’s former editor, knew about and encouraged phone hacking, was found dead on Monday, The Guardian reports.
Meanwhile, Karen Gay Silkwood (February 19, 1946 – November 13, 1974) was an American labor union activist and chemical technician at the Kerr-McGee plant near Crescent, Oklahoma, United States. Silkwood's job was making plutonium pellets for nuclear reactor fuel rods. She died under mysterious circumstances after investigating claims of irregularities and wrongdoing at the Kerr-McGee plant.
Monday, July 18, 2011
Tony Simone to City : ''F#ck You''
Monday, July 18th 2011, 4:00 AM
Bryan Smith for News
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn's director of community outreach dropped a few F-bombs at a local fundraiser last week.
Christine Quinn needs to rein in her director of community outreach Tony Simone.
The City Council speaker's office has issued an apology after Simone reached out to protesters outside a Quinn fund-raiser last Monday by lobbing a few F-bombs their way.
Documentary maker Donny Moss tells us that the protest outside the Dream Downtown hotel, which drew close to 30 people, was one of several that he and others will organize "between now and the mayoral election," to urge voters to "look beyond" Quinn's "identity" as a gay politician "to her actual record."
Moss addresses the issue in a 10-minute YouTube film called "Christine Quinn: Behind The Smile," in which he outlines a number of instances where, he contends, Quinn has "betrayed the gay community behind the scenes since becoming speaker."
Perhaps that's why Simone didn't have anything good to say when he encountered the protest at the Dream Downtown on Monday night where Quinn was having an $11-a-head fund-raiser for her 2013 mayoral campaign. (Quinn avoided her critics by using a back entrance to the hotel.)
According to Moss and another witness, Simone — who's a former Goldman Sachs portfolio analyst— approached the demonstrators, who were stationed on 16th St. between Eighth and Ninth Aves. outside of the hotel's entrance.
There, Simone asked one protester if Moss was present. Told that the filmmaker was indeed among the group, Simone responded: "Tell him to go f--- himself."
Moss says Simone then spotted longtime gay rights activist Allen Roskoff, and shouted "F--- you" at him before heading inside to the fund-raiser.
Roskoff, who's also been critical of Quinn, is president of the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club and co-author of the nation's first gay rights bill.
When we ran this story by Quinn's office, her communications director Jamie McShane told us Simone had gone to the fund-raiser "on his own time," where he was "repeatedly verbally abused by protesters. Tony lost his cool and should not have. He apologizes for his actions."
"That's a patent lie," replied Moss, who insisted "no one even recognized" Simone until he hurled his epithets.
"I didn't even say a word to him after he said I should go f--- myself," said Moss. He added that he and Roskoff were "mesmerized" by the city employee's behavior and said nothing.
Moss said he also didn't react when, he claimed, Simone approached him at another protest in summer 2009 and "shouted in my face, 'Loser!'
"I'm more interested in exposing Quinn's record than engaging with people who are invested in her success," he said.
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Well-Educated Train Diva
''Excuse Me, Do You Know What Schools I've Been To and How Well-Educated I Am ?''
Update on Hermon Raju, the well-educated screamer commuter on Metro-North : ''We give a lot of credit to the conductor, who keeps her cool during the whole interaction, and doesn't raise her voice once. Best of all, according to the video's uploader there was an announcement on the train a minute later, asking all passengers to please not use profanity on the train, 'especially those people who went to Harvard or Yale or are from Westport.' Pshaw, as if the Crimson elite would deign to follow such commands.''
Thursday, July 14, 2011
SAIC RICO Triple Damages
SAIC RICO Bloomberg Protest - Suzannah B. Troy Speech
Artist, blogger, and political commentator Suzannah B. Troy gave a speech today outside the New York City offices of SAIC to demand a RICO refund of triple damages against SAIC for their role in the organised crime that took place to rob taxpayers of over almost $1 billion in CityTime project costs.
Union representatives from Local 375 and DC 37, community activists, New York City taxpayers, and others gathered at 1250 Broadway in a demonstration against the technology company known as SAIC.
For years, newspaper and television reporters, bloggers, and whistle blowers have been reporting details of a massive taxpayer fraud perpetrated by New York City officials, by employees of SAIC and of another company known as Technodyne, and possibly by lobbyists in connection with the scandalous CityTime project.
The CityTime project began with an original budget of approximately $60 million, but has since ballooned to over $700 million.
The U.S. Attorney's Office has begun an investigation, but nobody yet knows how high this scandal, and other technology consultancy contract scandals, may go up the Bloomberg administration.
Stay tuned.
Jim Dwyer Reports on Ernst and Young Award TechnoDyne Suzannah B. Troy’s last month news.....See you at the Protest!!!! Listen to my speech!
Aug. 24, 2011 click on the above link and it brings me to Jim’s article. Maybe the good girl in me is forcing me to respect male authority shooting myself in the foot? Sad...here is the working link that clearly pre-dates Jim Dwyer’s article by a lot...
http://suzannahbtroy.blogspot.com/2011/06/saic-technodyne-won-big-awards-as-they.html
Well the NY Times is trying to chime in stating the obvious but we will take, plus its a spin on our Eisenhower Award piece, my gut is that is totally original idea. These Awards are useless/meaningless. They are bought and E&Y should be shamed for dole out such pork. Its like those movie awards endless patting themselves on the back as they are "masters of the universe"
SAIC had auditors those auditors should be arrested to...10 years of not testing for fraud. I don't believe Denault acted alone...SAIC is fully responsible for his actions and all monies and all penalties. Bullshit to SAIC fork up the money...thieves.
E & Y is one of the last big 4 accounting firms. Talk about NO BID competition. Arthur Anderson went down with Enron.
Deloitte & Touche LLP is the firm that Audits SAIC, they were just ratified at the shareholder meeting to continue as their auditors/public accounting firm.
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Christine Quinn's personal assistant, Tony Simone, yells F*CK YOU to peaceful protesters : What a Nightmare !!
Christine Quinn's ''Dream'' Fundraiser Turns into ''Nightmare'' as Her Personal Assistant Screams the F-Bomb to St. Vincent's Protesters.
LGBTQ activists, Health care activists, government transparency activists, public official integrity activists, and animal rights activists held a flashmob protest outside City Council Speaker Christine Quinn's fundraiser at Dream nightclub tonight in Chelsea.
Many LGBTQ activists and allies joined the emergency protest organised outside Speaker Quinn's fundraiser. Many LGBTQ activists said they believe that Speaker Quinn should have started fighting for marriage equality in 2005, back when Mayor Michael Bloomberg ordered the appeal of a landmark gay marriage ruling. In all her time in public office, Speaker Quinn has subjugated herself to the misogynist domination of Mayor Bloomberg.
Donny Moss, left, with Allen Roskoff, right -- officers of the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club -- protesting outside tonight's fundraiser organised by Christine Quinn.
Still yet other protesters held up signs as a reminder to the U.S. Justice Department that nobody has yet to be indicted in Speaker Quinn's office for her role in the City Council slush fund scandal.
Community activists, who support the opening of a full-service hospital with Level 1 Trauma Center held up a banner, shaming Christine Quinn's ''do nothing'' record on saving St. Vincent's Hospital. The banner attracted hate speech from one of Speaker Quinn's highly-paid staff members, as indicated below :
Tony Simone, photographed right, a NYC official who is paid $113,000.00 in taxpayer money each year (plus opaque discretionary member item bonuses) and who reports directly to Speaker Quinn, left, told the St. Vincent's protesters, “F*ck you!” outside Speaker Quinn’s fundraising event at the ”Dream” nightclub in Chelsea.
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Horse-Drawn Carriage Protest
Protest to Ban Horse-Drawn Carriages in New York City
Animal rights activists keep trying to rescue horses that pull carriages through the heavy and dangerous traffic of Midtown Manhattan, but City Council Speaker Christine Quinn has done nothing to ban horse-drawn carriages.
For more information, please ''like'' the Facebook page calling for an end to Carriage Horse Cruelty.
